January 2024 Update to the Tom Wesselmann Digital Corpus The Tom Wesselmann Digital Corpus has published its most recent update, which includes significant works in important private collections. The update also includes substantial research updates to the Wesselmann works in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, which the committee examined in the Fall […]
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As part of its long-term goal to update the entirety of the Monet catalogue raisonné, the Wildenstein Plattner Institute has released its latest online publication, Claude Monet: The Revised Catalogue Raisonné; The Pastels. This dynamic resource features information on 110 works in pastel, with links to historic publications on the artist. Presented in a searchable format and accessible for free on the Institute’s website, wpi.art, The Pastels will be continuously updated with new information as works are reviewed by the WPI’s Monet Committee.
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November 2023 New Oral Histories: Romare Bearden This month, we will release another edition of our Bearden Oral Histories series featuring Romare Bearden’s biographer, Myron Schwartzman. Schwartzman, Professor Emeritus of English at Baruch College, is the author of the biography Romare Bearden: His Life and Art (1990). Having befriended Bearden in 1978, Schwartzman conducted extensive interviews with the
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As the WPI prepares the next installment of Paul Gauguin’s catalogue raisonné, we are excited to present our next webinar series, Grappling with Gauguin. Bringing together curators and scholars from institutions in New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, and Denmark, this international series will address how to make space for diverse perspectives and critical discourse related to this important artist.
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October 2023 | Archival Releases: Michel and Irma van Gelder Papers (1898–1971) The WPI is pleased to announce the release of the Michel and Irma van Gelder Papers, a collection of art and business records that document the the van Gelder’s activities as art dealers. The release of this collection sheds light on the complicated history of Michel van Gelder, who catered to
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September 2023 Race Matters: Cultural Politics in the 1960s The 1960s was a tumultuous moment in American history, as racial equality movements propelled sweeping changes to the body politic. This webinar series presents new insights into how Bearden and his contemporaries tackled Black subject matter and racial themes in their work. It will also explore how racial concerns
